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Comment #35469820
Appreciate it!
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Comment #35448270
Agree on each suggestions. I’m especially excited about building #2, which I think is a fairly subtle, hard problem to solve.
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Comment #35447629
Appreciate the feedback on pricing! Will keep this mind as I imagine we'll offer a wider range of options in the future.
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Comment #35447219
Yes! We do support basic image blocks today, but the idea is that we’ll integrate generative media types as new image/video/audio models become more reliable & stable.
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Comment #35447205
Good to know, thanks!
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Comment #35446691
Unfortunately, everything but the AI works offline. Though, maybe that's a feature if you're planning a more mellow retreat :)
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Comment #35446331
That's fair! At a minimum, we probably should start saying "Type.ai" more often than just "Type."
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Comment #35446006
Haha tough crowd. (Yes)
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Comment #35445982
We knew we wanted it and we figured there are more people like us out there.
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Comment #35445938
Agreed! We’ve begun exploring some ways to do that.
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Comment #35445911
Yep, we’ve acquired hundreds of paying customers since launching about a month ago. And we don’t see the market here as “people who hire writers” — we see it as “people who must wr…
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Comment #35445868
No worries! I really appreciate you giving it a closer look, and I’m glad our general philosophy seems to resonate. Please shoot me an email if you ever try it and have any feedbac…
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Comment #35445738
We feel similarly. There are a lot of products in this space. Very few are enjoyable to use, though.
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Comment #35445708
We think about that a lot! I think this reply from my co-founder summarizes our answer well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35442714
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Comment #35445668
The honest answer is that it'll be hard for us to answer that until we try out what they've built!
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Comment #35445628
We thought it was pretty descriptive and at least as imaginative as "Word" or "Docs." But we're open to suggestions!
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Comment #35444384
Because we're still figuring it out and it takes a while to build new stuff (not a great answer, I know - but it's the honest one)
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Comment #35444117
Thanks! Claude seems to be especially strong with creative writing and writing in a wider breadth of styles, which ends up being really important.
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Comment #35444045
It should support pretty much any language! The commands will attempt to generate text in whatever language is already in the document (though, it's certainly not perfect yet and w…
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Comment #35444006
Stefan pretty much captured my perspective! I might just add a couple of related things: We have a subtle but important difference in focus compared to a product like Notion. We're…
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Comment #35443820
To each their own :). I do think it's a big space and plenty of folks will find ChatGPT helpful enough to not warrant a more vertical / specific solution like ours.
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Comment #35443801
Glad you've been enjoying it. I'm continually surprised by how much more I feel I can do working with ChatGPT/AI in a doc editor interface versus exclusively chat (though each have…